Molly Shannon Quotes
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If it's not happening, write your own thing!
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I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.
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You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.
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I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.
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The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.
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I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.
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I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.
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Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
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Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.
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I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.
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People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.
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There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.
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I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
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I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.
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The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.
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I want to do something I feel like I can do.
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The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.
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In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.
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I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
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I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
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In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
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You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.
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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
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Marriage can be complicated.